This "quick tutorial" introduces the general idea of a call and explains the most common cases. It does not explain or illustrate all cases. For additional details and/or examples, refer to the links in the "MORE INFO" box.

3/4 Tag (or "Three Quarter Tag", or "Tag the Line 3/4") starts the same way as a Tag the Line or a 1/2 Tag. Each dancer turns 1/4 (90 degrees) toward the center of their line. They all then start to do a Double Pass Thru, but they stop when the original end dancers meet, and those dancers take hands. The original center dancers are standing by themselves, centered in front of them.

This is further than for a 1/2 Tag, but not as far as a full Tag the Line. It is considered to be halfway between those two possibilities. Because the dancers are passing right shoulders, the two dancers in the center take right hands.

If 3/4 Tag is done from two parallel lines, each line does the same action. The original ends from each line take right hands, and all of them together form a right-handed wave. The original centers, who have gone past everyone from the other half of their own line to stand on the outside, join hands to form a couple.

Note that the outside couples finish standing directly in front of the two center dancers of the wave. They are standing centered as a couple, just as they would have finished if they had done a full Tag the Line.